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The Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

S.R. 2025/68 · Made 25 March 2025 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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Landlord And Tenant

Made 25th March 2025

Coming into operation 9th June 2025

The Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 55(5) and (6) of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006f1.

The Department has accepted the recommendation of the rent officer made under Article 55(4) of that Order that the rents referred to in Article 55(1) of that Order should be increased.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Increase of registered rents
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 9th June 2025.

2Increase of registered rentsI1

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) the rents registered under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2nd April 2007 and ending on 8th June 2025 shall be increased by 2.7 percent.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to a rent entered on the register of rents unless a certificate of fitness has been issued except where such a certificate is not required.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 25th March 2025.

L.S.

David Polley

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the rents registered with the rent officer for Northern Ireland under Part IV of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 during the period beginning on 2nd April 2007 and ending on 8th June 2025 by 2.7 percent.

A landlord must give a tenant at least 4 weeks’ notice of the increase in accordance with Article 49 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.